Research performed in part under Contract OEC-3-6-061784-0508 with the U.S. Office of Education.

This study examined the effects of varying cognitive demands on the task performance of 8- to 17-year-old autistic children. (CM)

Discusses the four essential ingredients comprising the wholistic performance model in the industrial/organizational context: the performance task, organizational support infrastructure, worker's capabilities, and worker's value affiliation or motivation. (Author/JEG)

Findings indicated that, in general, seeing a training film in color did not enhance performance; in fact it appeared to have inhibited it. (Author/DLS)

Of all things that can damage a roof, people are the worst. Ways are suggested to control access to roofs and monitor inspections and maintenance work. (Author/MLF)

This study is an attempt to validate an alternative electronic analog task for the Combination of Chemical Bodies Piagetian task. Both tasks were compared with each other, as well as with a Chemistry Placement Exam and an independent Piagetian measure. Subjects were 55 university first-year chemistry students. (MS)

Begg & Paivio (1969) have proposed that while sentences dealing with abstract matters are normally coded in verbal terms, those concerned with concrete events are internalized as imagery. In two experiments, subjects observed both types of sentence prior to carrying out a distractor task which involved either verbal or perceptual coding. (Editor)

Elderly depressives sometimes perform as badly as patients with dementia on tests of memory. It was hypothesized that this might be because depressives adopt a very conservative response strategy rather than because their memory is really impaired. (Editor)

Task performance was compared in same- and mixed-age triads of 231 first- and third-grade children. Half the triads worked for individual rewards, the rest for group rewards. (JH)

Predictions of divergent effects of individual task and subunit workflow technologies on staff characteristics and subunit structures were tested. (Author/IRT)

To determine the competency level required of a one-year graduate from barber school and to obtain information that would enable vocational-technical schools to plan their curriculum to better meet student barber needs, a survey was conducted in Wisconsin of 629 barber shop managers, 75 journeymen, and 200 apprentices. Picked at random, these…